Antonie Iorgovan

Antonie Iorgovan (1948 to 2007) was a Romanian jurist, university professor and politician, born in Gornea in the Banat. He studied law at the University of Bucharest, took a doctorate there in 1979 and joined its law faculty in 1973, becoming a full professor in 1993. He is chiefly remembered as the lead author of the 1991 Constitution of Romania, the post-communist basic law that was revised in 2003. He sat in the Romanian Senate from 1990 to 1992 as an independent and again from 2000 to 2007 for the Social Democratic Party, and from 1992 to 1996 he served as a judge of the Constitutional Court of Romania. He died in Vienna in 2007 and was buried with military honours in Bucharest.